San Angelo Iyengar Yoga with Jerri Crowley

08/02/2025

The Invisible Threads That Hold Every Asana Together

It’s not just muscles and bones that shape a pose—
It’s the awareness that flows like thread through the body.

✨ A quiet line from the crown to the tail
✨ A press from root to tip that carries intention
✨ Breath that lifts, softens, and guides
✨ Balance between left and right, front and back
✨ Sensitivity in the face, jaw, and breath
✨ Intelligence that stays steady, no matter the shape

These aren’t pose-specific instructions.
They’re principles—woven through every practice.
Invisible, but deeply felt.

How do you honour those threads in your practice today?



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08/02/2025

Sat 900am Intermediate yoga with Jerri.

07/24/2025

07/21/2025

Backbends for all levels this week. *New time for Ely's class on Thur!
Mon
900am Yoga Basics-Julia
1030am Chair-Jessica
1235pm Yoga 30-Jerri
530pm Beginner-Jerri
Tue
830am Intermediate-Jerri
1030am Foundations-Julie
Wed
900am Yoga Basics-Dave
530pm Intermediate-Jerri
Thu
830am Intermediate-Jerri
530pm* Beginner-Ely
Fri
900am Yoga Basics-Julia
1030am Chair-Debbie
1235pm Yoga 30-Jerri
Sat
900am Intermediate-Jerri
Sun
500pm Easy Evening Yoga(Restorative)-Jerri

07/17/2025

Jerri will be teaching Beginner Yoga for Ely tonight at 600pm. 60 min
All levels. See you there.

07/12/2025

Sat 900am with Jerri

07/10/2025

Yoga allows one to study themselves..it is a culture of the self. It is an art and science to open our eyes to what is. Never give up, yoga teaches you to develop a stable, hopeful mind and use disappointments as stepping stones for growth.

07/10/2025

🕉️Guru Purnima🙏🏻

“Yoga Is my Guru. Yoga alone taught me Yoga.”

Guru is one who is full of knowledge, full of light. Purnima is a full moon day. The Sun throws the light and the Moon receives it. Guru too who is full of knowledge , pours that knowledge for his disciples to receive it. Therefore, this day is called Guru Purnima. It is a very significant full moon day on which to celebrate the Guru-Sisya relationship.

My parampara is traced back to God. This Yoga is presented to us by Patanjali, who is also my Guru. Patanjali says that God is the first, foremost and absolute Guru, unconditioned by time and ever present, who guides us from within. He is also my Guru. This Guru is nearest and dearest to me. He dwells in my heart and speaks to my heart, and I salute him who is within me.

When I look back myself, I feel surprised how the Lord residing within guided me! I never thought that the tree of Yoga would grow like the Banyon tree. I never thought that the hidden knowledge will sprout in such a gigantic manner. I am grateful to my Guru, who sowed the seed of interest in me. The seed survived and grew into a tree giving me a magnanimous fruit.

It was my fate that I had to go to my teacher at Mysore for domestic help. But through fate I was fortunate enough to receive this knowledge. I got converted to Yoga; and the faith in it uplifted me to this level.

In those days I was like a person possessed. I was possessed by Yoga. There was nothing but a single thought ‘Yoga’ in my wakeful, or sleepy or dreamy, or aware or unaware states. I was haunted by Yoga consciously, unconsciously, subconsciously and perhaps even supraconsciously.

Another meaning of Guru is weight or heaviness. It is a weight of knowledge that the Guru puts on you. Guru Purnima Is the day of dedication where the pupil surrenders himself to the Guru. He follows the words and works of the Guru. He works selflessly and gains self-respect.

While practicing or teaching, I am not Iyengar. Something inside kindles me to forget myself and makes me an impersonal entity.

Yoga is the practice and Yoga is the soul. When sadhaka, Sadhna and Sadhya (aim) become one, it is union , it is Yoga. You are Yoga and Yoga is you. Kindle the light of Yoga, so that Yoga enlightens you to become a wise man.

B.K.S Iyengar
Astadala Yogamala Vol 3

07/10/2025

Kurmasana-Tortoise pose tonight in our Wed 530pm class. A forward bend, deeply introspective and quietening for the nervous system. There is a feeling of withdrawing from the external world to connect with one's inner self. Stretches the spine, hamstrings, shoulders and hips. Join me next tomorrow, Thursday, at 830am and Ely at 600pm.

07/10/2025